- Epics: narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds, sometime between 750 and 700 B.C.
- Myths: traditional stories
Key People:
- Mycenaeans: Indo Europeans that migrated from the Eurasian steppes to Europe, India and Southwest Asia and settled on Greek Mainland around 2000 B.C. They got their name from their leading city, Mycenae.
- Dorians: They moved into the war-torn countryside after Mycenaean Civilizations were destroyed. They spoke a dialect of Greek and may have been distant relatives of the Bronze Age Groups.
- Homer: A blind man that was one of the best storytellers.
- Zeus: the ruler of the gods
- Athena: goddess of wisdom
Key Events:
- Geography Shapes Greek Life-
• Ancient Greece was on a peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea. It also had 2,000 islands on the Aegean and Ionian seas.
• The sea: The Aegean Sea, The Ionian Sea and the Black sea were important transportation routes because the sea ways linked most parts of Greece, and sea also connected to other societies once Greece people became good sailors. Sea trade allowed them to get natural resources such as timber, precious metals, and usable farmland.
• The Land: Mountains around Balkan Peninsula covered about 3/4 of ancient Greece. Since the mountains divided land, they had a bunch of small communities instead of one big government. Transportation was difficult due to mountains. Not a lot of farmland caused little population, in this case Greece people wanted to find new colonies so they could have luxury lives and more farming.
• The Climate: In ancient times temperatures like 48 degrees in the winter and 80 degrees in the summer, supported an outdoor life for Greece people. Men would take an active part in Civic Life outside during free time.
-Mycenaean Civilization Develops-
• Mycenaean was located on a rocky ridge and had a wall more than 20 feet thick protecting them. They could withstand any attack. A warrior king ruled Mycenaean like villages and farms. Other strong rulers ruled towns near Mycenaean like Tiryns and Athens.
-Contact with Minoans-
• After 1500 B.C. the Mycenaean came in contact with the Minoans would showed them the importance of seaborne trade. Mycenaean then soon traded with islands off of the Mediterranean Sea like Aegean islands, Anatolia, Syria, Egypt, Italy and Crete.
• The Minoans influenced the Mycenaean's art, Greek religious practice, politics and literature. Mycenaeans also inherited the Minoan's writing system to Greek Language. The Trojan War: During the 1200's B.C. fought a ten year war against Troy, Anatolia. Trojan war was later known as a fictional story, but Heinrich Schliemann suggested that the stories of the war might have been based on true events dealing with real people, cities and events.
-Greek Culture Declines Under the Dorians-
• Mycenaean civilization collapsed during 1200 B.C. because of sea raiders who attacked and burned the city. The Dorians settled in the worn-torn country side.
• The Dorians were less advanced then the Mycenaeans. Trade came to a standstill and the economy collapsed. During Dorian time little writing was found so historains no little about Greece in that time period.
-Epics of Homer-
• Iliad, was one of Homer's great epic poems. The warriors of the poem are: the fierce Greek, Achilles, and the courages and noble hector of Troy.
-Greeks Create Myths-
• Greeks came up with Myths about their gods. Through the myths, The Greeks Sought to understand the mysteries of nature and the power of human passions.
• Greeks contributed human qualities such as love, hate and jealousy. The gods would fight, but unlike humans they lived forever. For example, Zeus and his wife, Hera often fought because Hera was jealous of Zeus and his relationship with other woman.
Bold Words:
- Epics: narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds, sometime between 750 and 700 B.C.
- Myths: traditional stories
Key People:
- Mycenaeans: Indo Europeans that migrated from the Eurasian steppes to Europe, India and Southwest Asia and settled on Greek Mainland around 2000 B.C. They got their name from their leading city, Mycenae.
- Dorians: They moved into the war-torn countryside after Mycenaean Civilizations were destroyed. They spoke a dialect of Greek and may have been distant relatives of the Bronze Age Groups.
- Homer: A blind man that was one of the best storytellers.
- Zeus: the ruler of the gods
- Athena: goddess of wisdom
Key Events:
- Geography Shapes Greek Life-
• Ancient Greece was on a peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea. It also had 2,000 islands on the Aegean and Ionian seas.
• The sea: The Aegean Sea, The Ionian Sea and the Black sea were important transportation routes because the sea ways linked most parts of Greece, and sea also connected to other societies once Greece people became good sailors. Sea trade allowed them to get natural resources such as timber, precious metals, and usable farmland.
• The Land: Mountains around Balkan Peninsula covered about 3/4 of ancient Greece. Since the mountains divided land, they had a bunch of small communities instead of one big government. Transportation was difficult due to mountains. Not a lot of farmland caused little population, in this case Greece people wanted to find new colonies so they could have luxury lives and more farming.
• The Climate: In ancient times temperatures like 48 degrees in the winter and 80 degrees in the summer, supported an outdoor life for Greece people. Men would take an active part in Civic Life outside during free time.
-Mycenaean Civilization Develops-
• Mycenaean was located on a rocky ridge and had a wall more than 20 feet thick protecting them. They could withstand any attack. A warrior king ruled Mycenaean like villages and farms. Other strong rulers ruled towns near Mycenaean like Tiryns and Athens.
-Contact with Minoans-
• After 1500 B.C. the Mycenaean came in contact with the Minoans would showed them the importance of seaborne trade. Mycenaean then soon traded with islands off of the Mediterranean Sea like Aegean islands, Anatolia, Syria, Egypt, Italy and Crete.
• The Minoans influenced the Mycenaean's art, Greek religious practice, politics and literature. Mycenaeans also inherited the Minoan's writing system to Greek Language.
The Trojan War: During the 1200's B.C. fought a ten year war against Troy, Anatolia. Trojan war was later known as a fictional story, but Heinrich Schliemann suggested that the stories of the war might have been based on true events dealing with real people, cities and events.
-Greek Culture Declines Under the Dorians-
• Mycenaean civilization collapsed during 1200 B.C. because of sea raiders who attacked and burned the city. The Dorians settled in the worn-torn country side.
• The Dorians were less advanced then the Mycenaeans. Trade came to a standstill and the economy collapsed. During Dorian time little writing was found so historains no little about Greece in that time period.
-Epics of Homer-
• Iliad, was one of Homer's great epic poems. The warriors of the poem are: the fierce Greek, Achilles, and the courages and noble hector of Troy.
-Greeks Create Myths-
• Greeks came up with Myths about their gods. Through the myths, The Greeks Sought to understand the mysteries of nature and the power of human passions.
• Greeks contributed human qualities such as love, hate and jealousy. The gods would fight, but unlike humans they lived forever. For example, Zeus and his wife, Hera often fought because Hera was jealous of Zeus and his relationship with other woman.